Although the rainy season only began a little over two months ago, El Salvador has already suffered two very destructive storms. The first, Tropical Storm Agatha, consisted of five days of heavy rain at the end of May and caused landslides and flooding that damaged bridges, schools and homes. Nearly 9,000 people were evacuated from […]
Press Release of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining Last Thursday, July 1st, the Attorney General of the Republic of El Salvador, through the Specialized Department Against Organized Crime (DECO) and the Sub directorate of Investigations of the National Civil Police captured a dozen suspects involved in the murders of the environmentalists Ramiro Rivera Gómez […]
Pac Rim Faces Off with the Government of El Salvador After months of waiting, arbitration in the Pacific Rim case officially began in Washington D.C. last month. On May 31st and June 1st lawyers representing Pac Rim Cayman and the Salvadoran government went head to head before a tribunal of three international arbitrators. The case […]
by Gabriel Zucker Additional reporting by David Lee Originally Published in the June 2010 volume of Monthly Review “Ultimately,” said Miguel Rivera, a soft-spoken man in his late 20s, “we are a family that has dedicated ourselves to helping the people with their needs and defending their rights. But in the process of denouncing […]
Honduras: Lobo Rewards Mining Porfirio Lobo appears smiling, posing together with the Canadian ambassador, Neil Reeder, and the mining businessmen, among them Patrick Docuney, executive director of Aura Mineral Inc. and David M. Petroff, a recognized investor of extractive mining, textile sweatshops and other areas. The photograph, on the official web site of the Honduran […]
During the month of April, the state of Arizona passed a draconian law that threatens the civil rights of all and sets the stage for a hostile environment of racial profiling and harassment of anyone suspected of being in the United States without documentation of their legal status in the country. One aspect of the […]
On March 26, we celebrated the 2010 International CRIPDES Sistering Assembly here in San Salvador with over 70 participants. Representatives attended from CRIPDES communities all over El Salvador, from the Madison, New Jersey and Lawrence Sister Cities committees, from Sister Parish, and from solidarity organizations in Bolivia, Spain and Norway. We came together to talk […]
May 31st is the first day of hearings of Pacific Rim’s case against the government of El Salvador through the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). We hope that you can join us and other Salvadoran solidarity organizations in protesting the hearing in Washington DC. This is a great way to learn more […]
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On February 2nd, more than 140 international social organizations sent a letter to the Attorney General of El Salvador, and President Mauricio Funes denouncing the lack of justice in the cases of murdered environmentalists in the department of Cabañas and demanded measures to assure an impartial and thorough investigation. Among the organizations that signed the […]
There must be immediate, thorough investigations into the murders, threats and harassment that have taken place in Cabanas over the last year. The U.S.'s history of intervention in El Salvador and recent attempts to influence the Salvadoran election are well known. Recently, the U.S. Embassy criticized the National Roundtable Against Mining, denouncing their calls for investigation […]